"We're gonna play today. We're gonna eat a bunch of food over here. We're gonna go on the rides. It's gonna be a fun day," said Leslie Morissette of Springvale.

It's a welcome warmup with the end of the summer tourism coming on Labor Day.

"Before heading back to work and to school, and the wife is over there enjoying just sitting doing nothing while we go have fun in the water," said Joseph Lewis of Massachusetts.

The month of August is averaging two degrees below normal.

The highest temperature Portland reached this summer was 87 degrees on July 23.

"We've kind of kept the same pattern that we had all winter and spring with this big trough of low pressure over eastern Canada the northeastern U.S., and with that we haven't been able to warm things up," said WMTW News 8 Meteorologist Matt Zidle.

This week will be the longest stretch of temperatures in the 80s in August. No one is complaining.

"We're making the most of it. Everybody else is starting back to school but we're still on vacation in Vacationland," said Emily Mitchell of Waterville.

Temperatures are expected to return to the 70s by the end of the week.